How to Use infest in a Sentence

infest

verb

• Complacent people can infest the minds of those around them.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• Their home was infested with termites—millions of them, silently eating through the wooden beams, floors, and walls.
  — Amplified Content Studio, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
• This tick is known to infest deer and a wide range of other hosts.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• All the adult dogs were dirty, flea-infested, and had long, untrimmed claws.
  — Thomas MacMillan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• Small white fluffy material on the stem and trunk of the trees are one of the signs that the tree is infested.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• For the past three years, my home has been infested with biting gnats.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• The bed might be infested with bedbugs, but the TV remote will be germ-free.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2017
• What should gardeners do about the aphids and bugs that infest milkweed stems and blooms?
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
• The twist is that the map is also infested with cube monsters that are trying to kill you.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 6 Nov. 2018
• One was placed in a basement unit that had no heat and was infested with rats and spiders.
  — Maria Perez, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• In the worst-case scenario, the pros may discover that your home is infested with a bat colony.
  — Health.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The internet, meanwhile, has likely served to swell the ranks of the infested.
  — National Geographic, 22 June 2018
• There are many species of round worms (nematodes) that can infest fish.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
• The tiny orange critters infest plants that are too dry or whose leaves are covered in dust.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• If the library’s got bugs, and death beetles infested it in the 1970s, well, the stacks can turn into freezers.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• Expect to hear howls from inside the White House gates, and from the enablers infesting the cable green rooms as well.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Dec. 2017
• Nic Cage’s ex claims her rental house is infested with toxic black mold that makes her sick.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• No one knows how many thousands of pythons infest the Everglades.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• People slept on the ground, froze in the cold, sweated in the heat, didn’t have enough to eat, couldn’t keep clean, and became infested with disease.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 13 July 2019
• It is most commonly carried by the black-legged or deer tick and can infest humans and pets.
  — Kaleb A. Brown, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2020
• The panties become infested with the bacteria, yeast and mold.
  — Essence, 9 Aug. 2019
• The neighborhood -- once among the city's scariest and most crime infested -- has become a hub for the arts and creative types.
  — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• As much as 4% to 6% of beans by count are also allowed to be insect-infested or moldy.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• With Rothwell's help, researchers are still studying the timing of when SWD lay their eggs and infest the ripening fruit.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2023
• The downside was that chickens had already lived there, so it was infested with fleas.
  — National Geographic, 19 May 2017
• Stressed plants can be infested by soft green aphids, thin and dark flower thrips, or tiny spider mites.
  — Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024
• Anhalt had been living in a home infested with black mold.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 Mar. 2017
• The basement walls are crumbling, Brown said, and her home is infested with vermin.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 5 July 2023
• The victim in this case was me—though there will soon be many others as Guy Ritchie’s pox on Camelot infests the multiplexes.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 11 May 2017
• As evidence, the letter notes the number of lakes that are now infested.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024